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Fundamental Concepts

Key Theoretical Perspectives

  • Strengths Theory
  • Structual Theory
  • Empowerment Theory
  • Systems Theory

Social Justice and Human Rights

Structural Family Therapy

Core Concepts

According to Barker:

  • Social Justice is an ideal condition in which all members of society have the same rights, protection, opportunities, obligations, and social benefits (as cited in Finn & Jacobson, 2008, pg. 27).
  • Meaning
  • Power
  • History
  • Context
  • Possibility

"Social workers dedicate themselves to improving life conditions for vulnerable and marginalized individuals and groups and advocating for social policies" (Finn & Jacobon, 2008).

Ethics and Cultural Competence/Humility

According to Van Hook (2014) "Families seeking help come from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds that influence family patterns" (pg.220).

Engaging in ethical practice means that one should respect family boundaries at all time.

Cultural Adaptations: Cultural context and norms are important considerations in the assessment process.

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Major Tenets

1. Families are organizations with structural patterns that are important to the lives of the family members.

2. Symptoms within families are signs of a family under stress (Minuchin & Fishman 1981).

Engagement

3. Understanding the organizational patterns of families as they relate to the problem at hand is essential to the assessment and treatment process.

Major Tenets Cont.

Teaching/Learning

4. The interaction pattern demonstrated by the family members in the family session is a critical source of information and more reliable than a family member’s self-reports.

Structural Family Therapy

According to Finn and Jacobson (2008) "Engagement is the process through which the social worker enters the world of the participant(s) and begins to develop a working relaionship" (pg.199).

5. Change occurs through active involvement of family members in alternative behaviors

Teaching-learning is a participatory process of discovery and critical inquiry. In part, it entails the process of data collection,assessment, and interpretation reframes them as collaborative activities.

6. The family session is used to enact new behaviors and family change.

The family therapist attempts to create a map of the family that identifies the positions that family members take in terms of other family members.

Celebration and Prevention

Celebration is the act of commemorating the success, big and small, in the process of change

Core Processes/Assessment

Through these celebratory efforts and the families witnessing change, it enhances the concept of prevention.

Action and Accompaniment

Evaluation and Critical Thinking

Action: The process of carrying out plans and sustaining the momentum. Action consist of activating, brainstorming, decision making, planning, and putting efforts in motion.

  • Challenge the Symptoms
  • Challenge the Family Structure
  • Challenge the Family Reality
  • Evaluation is an ongoing process consisting of stepping back, taking stock at different moments in the change process, and assessing the effectiveness of our efforts.

Accompaniment: The actual people-to-people partnerships through which action is realized.

  • Family partnerships
  • Social work/therapist partnership with family
  • Critical Thinking is a dialogical process of learning together from our experiences.

According to Van Hook (2014)The goal of Structural Family Therapy is "to change the structure of the family in order to enable members to “free the symptom bearer of symptoms, to reduce conflict and stress and to learn ways of coping” (pg.210)

Overview

  • What is Structual Family Therapy?
  • Social Justice and Human Rights
  • Ethics and Cultural Compentence/Humility
  • Core Concepts
  • Theoretical Perspectives
  • Core Processes
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